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2010 April/May EDITORIAL ................. 2 BLACK HOLES,THE HIGGS PARTICLE AND CERN ................. 3 HOUSTON ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 8 Sky TELESCOPES FOR LOAN 12 SOCIETY NOTICES ...... 14 watcher TRAINING COURSES .... 14 April/May 2010 LATEST ON THE NEW OBSERVATORY 15 NIGHT SKY FOR APRIL . 17 NIGHT SKY FOR MAY .. 18 WHAT’S ON APRIL/MAY 19 THE REALM OF THE GALAXIES 20 This months cartoon courtesy of www.xkcd.com Page 1 © copyright 2010 guildford astronomical society www.guildfordas.org Editorial Hi everyone, I hope you‟ve all now recovered from the clocks being bumped forward last weekend. On one hand I like the fact that I now get to go home in daylight, but the knock-on effect of the sudden decrease in my pre-midnight observing time always comes as a bit of a shock. Not that I‟ve actually done much observing this month, but that‟s another story. In this issue of Skywatcher we have I think, something for everyone. Mark Eaton takes us on a trip around the Large Hadron Collider, which I picked up on as I was tuned to Radio 4 earlier this week on the evening commute. It seems the initial results are in and it‟s working just fine. Given the bil- lions it cost I imagine that all concerned are just plain relieved, and the team now has a „go‟ for run- ning it at full-power. Mark‟s article is a great read for the armchair cosmologists or particle physi- cists amongst you and prepares the way for interpreting the results. On a completely different note, one of our long-standing members and a past-President from long ago: Brian Gordon-States, has a piece on our twinned society - Houston Astronomical Society. Per- sonally, I‟m always interested to read about what other Societies are up to and what facilities they offer to their members. I‟ll let you read and make up your own mind, but I‟m not giving too much away if I mention that you might like to compare their observatory site with ours. On that particular topic, as we feature some late-breaking pictures from the latest work-party that has been hard at work on the new observatory building up at Holmbury. When all the hard work is com- plete and it‟s fully-operational, this promises to revolutionise (an abused word undoubtedly, but en- tirely justified here) our observing activities as we will have an excellent imaging facility for mem- bers to use. However, the JST (John Smith Telescope) is not to be retired and will continue to be available to members – the opportunity to do some visual observing with a 20-inch telescope is not to be ignored. As a neat and unintentional segue into visual observing, we round things off with a short article cour- tesy of your truly on the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. Pitched at owners of small(er) telescopes or large binoculars, it‟s (hopefully) a useful guided tour around the cluster taking in most of the Messier and some bright NGC objects on the way. April is perhaps the best month in the year to do this as the cluster is high in the south, and it‟s before the summer twilight starts interfering too much. Getting some experience of finding your way around what is a challenging area of the sky paves the way for using the JST. Whereas you may see a few galaxies in the same field with a small telescope; seeing a dozen or so in the same field with the JST is simply an unforgettable observing experience. So happy reading and hope to see you under the stars at one of our observing evenings. Peter Dean, Editor [email protected] If you would like to contribute an article or other item to Skywatcher, I will be very pleased to in- clude it. Articles can be any length and images are most welcome, so long as they are yours. You can send them via email to the address above. I‟m always open to suggestions for ways of improving the magazine, so please feel free to send me any feedback to the same address. Alternatively, start a dis- cussion on the Society Bulletin Board. Page 2 © copyright 2010 guildford astronomical society www.guildfordas.org Black Holes, The Higgs Particle and CERN What’s the connection between the Eiffel Tower, Star Trek, Margaret Thatcher and the Higgs Particle? Read on to find out as Mark Eaton takes us on a behind-the-scenes visit to the LHC at CERN onsidering that the Large Particle, CERN has already gener- Hadron Collider (LHC) at ated a number of Nobel prize win- CERN in Geneva is look- ning discoveries and such things as C ing at some of the small- World Wide Web. The site is home est particles in the universe, the to around 10,000 people, including numbers associated with it are truly some 2,500 staff and researchers as „astronomical‟. It has never failed to well as students and researchers amaze me how sub-atomic particles from the nations who support the can teach us so much about the big- facility. It is fully equipped with its gest issues in astronomy and cos- own travel agency, post office and mology such as dark matter and the shops and the roads are all named Big Bang. after famous scientists. As a mature student of astrophysics I was able to visit CERN through the International Association of Physics Students (IAPS) (http:// www.iaps.info/) and we were able to access some of the latest thinking at the world‟s biggest experimental site as well as visiting some of the facili- ties surrounding the LHC. The Large Hadron Collider itself is One immediate thing that hit me was obviously the centrepiece of the fa- the age of the site. CERN has been cility, although you would be hard hitting the news for over 50 years pressed to spot it even at 27km long and whilst most people in the world as it is located 100m underground, know about the search for the Higgs with the majority of it residing in France (where it is easier to buy land). The LHC itself consists of over 9,000 magnets designed to steer two proton „beams‟ (more accurately packets) around the 27km circuit. The beams are then converged at four experimental points called AT- LAS, ALICE, CMS and LHCb, or they can be sent toward a fixed tar- get. Each of the experiments are huge. One, the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid,) contains more metal than the Eiffel Tower and weighs 12,000 tonnes and each of the four experiments have their own control room. A sculpture in the CERN reception that reacts to Cosmic Rays hitting it Protons collided in the LHC are trav- with random patterns of light. elling at 99.9999% of the speed of (Continued on page 4) Page 3 © copyright 2010 guildford astronomical society www.guildfordas.org (Continued from page 3) light and they impact with a combined power of 14TeV (Terra Electron Volts) (this is 14,000,000,000,000 Electron Volts where 1 Electron Volt is the kinetic energy gained by an electron when it The CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) Control Room. is accelerated by a bat- The LHC has four main experiments (Atlas, Alice, tery power of 1 volt). CMS and LHCb) and each has its own control room. For reference the power given to an electron in the that on an observing night!) with a cathode ray tubes that used to be resolution of 75 megapixels. More popular in TVs is given only than that, it can take 40 million 20,000 electron volts, so interac- pictures per second of proton im- tions within the LHC are some pacts when it is running and this is 700 million times more powerful. more data than could ever be The CMS has a stored so they have to quickly camera with a sur- The particles in the LHC are re- screen the image and decide 2 ferred to as a beam but in reality whether to keep it or discard it. face area of 220m they travel around the system in This reduces the number of frames with a resolution of „packets‟, each containing 1011 taken when the machine is running 75 megapixels. protons. When the LHC is running to around 100 per second. it has a total of 2808 „packets‟ of More than that it protons, each located 7.5m apart Much has been written about the can take 40 million as they travel around the 27km. possibility of the LHC producing a pictures per second These packets are brought to four „micro-Black Hole‟. In reality this collision points within each of the is a distinct possibility they told four experiments producing us, but given that the Black Hole 6.5x108 proton-proton collisions created will evaporate in one mil- every second whilst running. lion million million millionth of a However, the LHC is only the end of the proton‟s journey as it first has to be accelerated by three smaller systems that raise the speed of the proton from a few metres per second to 87% of the speed of light (261,000km per second) before being injected into the LHC. The amount of data col- Dr Rolf Landua – a leading particle physicist who ad- lected by the LHC experi- vised the cast and director of the film ‘Angels & De- ments is truly vast. The mons’ and tried to reduce the number of factual sci- CMS alone has a camera entific inaccuracies – he admits he was not com- with a surface area of pletely successful.
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